Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 53, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 18, 1949 Page: 6 of 6
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"I Had Ponder" Club
Similar To Others
Rv HOH (OSMIUM
tt'ortie 4mui»i
A fellow Ilia ahnut took hla
Ufa In hla hands last Saturday
at Jon Htnvnna’ Clubhouse Rest-
Mirant at Churchill Downs- after
Calur-et’s Pondor won and "aid
134. “Thn I had Ponder'' mob a as
>ut In full form and knocking over
l> Innocent hv-standnrs and (2)
Bourticn.
Thn ‘1 had Pondnr” club la a
relative to several other organi-
sation* ahlch blosaor more fertile-
ly in snorts than in any other field.
It la corparaOvely easy to Join
these organizations, which tale
shone alth light nine »lll:e rantdlty
Irmediately after a blR snorts upset
or historic event, noth those who
tell the truth and those who don't
are eligible.
I snent two or three days around
Matt Winn's track last week- and
never heart Ponner’s nare mention-
ed except .Usnararlnglv. Her, Jones
said he was a cheap horse. A
friend who sat near the W urren
Wrights at the rare itself ren< rted
that few " embers of the party bet
on the race, and that those who did
bet Ponder-out of courtesy-bet
him to show.
Hut In Stevens' place after the
race there was a multitude of peonle
» few more veara
self in.
I'll declare m
'Ike Jacobs retires with nertu
ten careers behind him. The <
ruy has done an incredible mmd
of things well, le was once
mah-cart meat-hutcher on f ■
York's lower hast side. As a you
m an he turned Into the ch!
as an excursion boat mncesmtonal
and was wiped out when the : en«
Mocum burned in one of 4m«eir
ereateat catastronhea.
A short tire later he was hi
in the -nney through the Invents
If that's the word, and the aa
of lilack hat strlnes witch, wl
attached to the lanel, kent on t
lids of gav ninety sports dur
brisk winds.
Still later he promoted a 10-nl
tour by Snrtco C an'so, nald
tenor the then unheard sum
♦ lb.000 a nlrht. and cleaned
'Ike scalped tick eta out of
irsii e poc! >-t like r rt-nrh post-
ern », in fkv r t of tin i rn lv» i Id
i Ippotilore i heater wtleh he evert
i i'llV controlled. J is flilfs grossed
530,000,000.
At tic first T erraey-T unney
fight Vile via appto:-ched hy r
rlrh phlladidrHs hoodlur who
11 eggee for 25 rlncrldr rtot* at
ar-Paris Game Called;
ouble Header Tonight
SPORTS
ORIU
whn aald they had hir and aw* the last roe eng u tel* < are of
celetmutlnr In keeping. Since ther jsore nolltlcal connections. Mike
|*ve run across a few more thousand U,^ lher thmich the fight was a
whn had him and an beginning sellout, in view of the recent threats
to wonder If the machines didn’t
rake a mistake by listing Olvmnia
as the 4-to-S favorite Olv-m j«
•should have been 100-to-l at the
•ate people see" to have bet op
Ponder.
A decade and more ago there
was an *‘l had Kchmellne” cluh. it
took shape about n n.r. one June
nlrht. shortly after Jack Blackburn
was leading the lumn-iaden and
bleeding Joe Louis back to hla
dressing rnom.
All of a sudden the club had
tens of thousands of met-tiers at
nr- side and ini ar-nt'v •• iHron*
through tlie country 1-xcent for the I
sportswrlters who had picked Louis
In nrint. It was instantly difficult
ui find anyone whn had chosen
Joe—though Joe had entered the
ring at hop etlunc like l-to-M.
Luring some wort with Babe
T"th, he and 1 heard from countless
people who had "seen him -lojnt" I
*4 by using only a moderafp
r 4w> of multlollcai. ", a la I r.
iiaHW’. the famous tilrd game of
the lb32 World Series between the
yanks and < uh* must have bean
witnessed by at leant von,non fans.
I hpriomoters of the r me. anoarent-
|y tnlng to duck tne Income tax
people, said there were onM th'rtv
or fhrtv thousand on hand that dav.
»ht*re is an "I saw Walter Johnson
bitch his ftrst "are" e|i|h in Wasli-
....
i mus» have
Brethon m
of ew yort police to close In on
ticket scalpers In the htg town-
some of whom are adding $30 to
the price of seats fbr "finuth
Faclflc"—it is it tert-sUnc to not*
■hat "ike charged the Hoodlum
$1,000 apiece for the 25 seats,
which the mugs "aid in crisp new
thousand dollar Mils,
he mugg thanked Mtkt and was
walking away when Mike said,
"Just a minute fellow. You haven't
"4'l me for the tick eta them selves.
They're $50 each.’'
••ladewater ir. High coach Rick
Toler and 'H” team coach fTiuck
May new drill mninr high football
players in Mocking fundamentals
at Hear vUdlaw Although spring
football training is barred hy the
InterscholnsUc league for senior
high boys, lunior high boys and
Jr. High Footballers
Learn Fundamentals
Baseball
Results
defeat, had the Cubs shut out for
seven Innings. Then Forrest
Burges hnmered with one on
to send the game into extra in-
nings.
AMI It|( A S | f. V.'l 4
Red sox 4 . Ilhltr «*«»» 3
Chicago 000 100 020-3-7-0
Boston 000 000 22X-4-R-0
Stephens, Homerun. Boston. 8th
(1 on).
Oumpert and Wheeler.
Parnell and Tebbetts.
w In v
that the mm"-
lnctnn-1 ermlt
from 15.000 Vi
up *be attend'
I look'
and.
Hv International News service
Vern Stephens, who jumped to
the Mexican League three selsons
ago hut had the presence of mind
to lump right bark again before
nightfall, hit another of his game-
winning homers today to give the
Red Sox a tlght-sltttng 4-3 de-
cision over the surprisingly
militant White Sox.
The latter had Mel Parnell
. licked, 3-2, going Into the laat
■Turinc mv v.-ars there half of the eight. Then Stephens
i>* h *nod 5ooo >f the I came to the plate behind Ted
>• .■ ich tie f -)-...• I Williams’ dotihle and blasted one
* av •■in i r ’t ree friends of Randy Oumpert'* bear-down
• hee ear the left field barrier
, ash Mr the winning runs.
i>\ I It was home run leader Stephens’
ninth of the year, and repeated
with marked fidelity the Parnell-
iumpert finnle of four lays ago.
That one was broken up In the
11th Inning 2-1. hy Stephens’
eighth nomiv,
In the National .league. the
. I Dodgers got lack, lnt" their
. winning touch in Chicago by
* beating the Cubs. 8-5. with a
■ six-run rally in the eleventh,
f I This gave the Brooklyn* an 8-2
lead, which the Cubs promptly
whittled down via Andy Pafko's
omtn ■ iwo-rt,n homer.
They scored three times, all
*v told, before reliefer Lou Pnllca
I could get the side out to end the
game. Homers Iwr Roy Campanella
• :Mon ] !|nrj 1'jrtjf.p f. dwards for three runs
sparked the IX'dgers' big uprising
in the top part of the Inning.
Ralph Branca. gaining his
sixth straight victory without a
<ero
ntud
I was complaining .f the aix-ve
to a brother of mine nur cd Charles
a few ve irs. ago. Charles can take
snorts or leave 'h'"- but "refers
the latter. '1 he tile league games
he has choseu U v atet could be
nur tiered or, the nitchlr
iorriecai llrown
hand
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in on h*wt«rv.M I
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“With HU "
fUffr* ♦! a? ti»-‘ vv.in, tl>n.
Ufr will not an into tht* o*
of t»ow « w»*v nnr
fd 1 ou uv ,)ad', i of r ,s»*v the
l*jiT*tf» nniirt r*ij thf f uulf»r 1
♦ht* nu.«. I ^urjviruUlv hav
••mi*. <utii if ! i■ f**T urltiric
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> ankern 4. Indians 1
Cleveland 000 001 110-3-7-1
New York 000 021 10x-4-IO-l
Hearden. Zoldak (8) and Hegan.
l.opat and Berra.
HR—Clev-Doby 7th. Vemon 8th;
New Yortc-Henrtch 7th.
Tigers 4 . senalnrw *
Detndt 000 000 022-4-V 1
Washington 000 101 000-2-8-2
Trucks, arlsson (8) Trout (9) and
Robinson, swift.
Wasterson, Thompson (8) Vkelternth
(9) and F>ans.
WP-Orlsson; Ll»-Thompson.
Athletics 9. Hmwns 7
St. t ouls 001100 000-2- 7-1
Phllsdelphla 320 000 22X-9-10-0
Drew*. Starr (2) Kennedy (5) »nd
Moss.
nnssie, Kellner (4) DllbreyfS)
and Guerra.
HR—Pha.-Soder 7th (1 on).
N ATKIN XI I | A'il |
Hudgerw ■. Cubs '111 mnlngst
Brooklyn 000 100 010 06-8-14-0
Chicago 000 000 0 20 0 3-5- 9-2
HR-Campanellt. Brooklyn 11th
1 on) Burgess,*Chgo. 8th (1 oni,
Pafko, Chgr. 11 ,1 on), Fdwards,
Chlcagr- 11th.
Branca, Pallca fll), and
Campanella.
Dubiel, Adkins (8). Chlpmsn
(10) . Doliemic (ID. Lade (11).
and Sthefflng, Walker (2).
WP-Branca. I p-chipn an.
IMwles t, Glanls 7
New York 001 100 0002— 6-0
Pittsburgh 000 0 20 001-3-10-1
HUtting and Cooper.
Chesnes, FlUzgerald.
HP-NY-Hnrtun* 3rd; Pgh.-Klner
5th (1 on».
%
Weds 3. i'nives 4
Boston ‘020 011 000-4- 8-1
Cincinnati 200 002 0lx-VI2-0
Jr. High football boys will
complete two week* of spring
training Friday, May 20 under
the direction of Jr. High coach
Rick Toler, head coach Bill
Stages. assistant coach Then
Rigsby and “R" team coach
Chuck Haynes.
The group la composed of
I boya who are now In the ninth
grade and will play senior high
! football tht a fall and boys under
the ninth who will play tunlor
ball In the coming grid season.
Tfte boys are learning f notball
fundamentals— Mocking, tackling,
basic defensive formations, and
next fall’s offensive formations.
Boys now In the nlnf grade
whn will play with the high school
Rears are. Toby Davla. Douglas
I ynn, Billy Peace, chartes Tur
well, James [ aster, Jackie Baird,
L.C. Lancaster, Hobby Walkar.
Wtllb Waller. Billy Herryhlll,
Don Vaughn. Lon F*ope. Bobby
Allen, Gene Massey. Bobby Gary,
Winston Carpenter, Kenneth Deven-
shlre.
Boya who will play with coach
Toler’s Cube this fall are: Nell
Williams, Hugh Kadney, David
Julian. Gian Gaines, Coy Gam-
mage. Sherman Kennedy. Charles
Sima, Kevin Thompson, Royee
Rlackbum. Dennis Rinehart,
Charles Hayes, jerry Lancaster.
Joel Gibbon*. Marvin pierce,
•jelvln Pate. Jr., Charles Mc-
Cheaney. Aennv Campbell, and
B.G. Irby.
Spahn. and Selkeld, Masl.
Lively. Peterson H) Gumbert '1t
and Mueller.
4 \«T rr A AN I I AO-1 f
«T ANIHNiJN
(Through May 16)
Team
W
L
Pet.
an
Marshall
16
10
.615
Longview
IS
10
.606
i'
Part--
15
11
.577
1
Gladewater
14
11
.560
1*
Bryan
13
12
.520
1,
Tyler
13
13
.500
3
Kilgore
•10
14
.417
5
Henderson
6
21
.222 101 •
Mnnrtax sight's Mrsults
Gladewater 4. Kilgore 2
Henderson l. Longview n
Bryan 3. Paris 2
Marshall 5, Tvler l
"ertnesxiav MrfK’s Nrtierinir
(, lade water at Paris
Marin*)! at Longview
Tyler at Kilgore
Henderson at P,ryan
hays who played tfirir laat vaa
in iunlnr high last fall may engage
In artsg workouts.
GHS Linksters
Win Match Over
Henderson HS
HORRY efiAin* accounted lor
three polma la individual rone
neUnn and teamed with Harold
Brewer to roller! three more a*
the 'tladewalrr High Nrhnol I
I Ink stem, whippet’ a squad from
Bender Kin Yesterday afternoon
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"No-re" look or *Oo tom* nm*< to*
foot ffvtorwawn OldtmoOti* doolot lodoy
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PHILLIPS
VIOIOH CO.
PNIIM! I OS
Gladewater High Schonl’e linka
squad downed a team from Render-
ion High school today I I'v-ff**a.
The win gave the Bears the Kaat
Texas high school golf league
championship *ccf>rdlng to an
inofficial muitt. Definite stand-
ings will be released later.
Hilly Hob Barker and Herbert
Brewer were able to take only a
half point from Summers and Onlh I
of Henderson In team play and
Colh tiesteil Barker for all three I
individual points. Brewer, how-
ever. fared better In individual
competition, taking three point*
to none from su" mars.
Harold Brewer and Bobby Shari
accounted for three points In tear
play with Nelson and smith and
sharp netted three against fffnltii
in singles play. Harold emerged
from the individual play with
2 points, while giving up one to
Nelson.
The matches with Henderson
finished the season for the 'Hade I
water squad
NKW YORK. May |7-(1N8J"A1
Bcharht. baseball's down prince,
always turns up where you least
expert him.
Let there be a gathering of
fight managers, crow roaches or
track men and there you’re sure
to find Al.
”1 guess It’s the explorer In
me.” he explains. ”1 always like
to learn something shout the
other guy's racket. Like the time
t was In Tampa training with the
Senators 25 years ago.
’’The Washington club always
held an annual golf tournament
and dark Griffith tells me 1 got
to get In tt although I never even
saw a golf match except in the
movies up to that time.
"He says 1 can have 40 handi-
cap which doesn’t mean a thin*
to me. But what doea mean some-
thing is that I’ve got to kick In
with $10 entrance fee.
'•Well. Hagen and jonea and
all the big golfer* happen to be
In a tournament ground there at
the time and the club staging 10
offers me $100 to pig on an act
at the first tee. Nobody ever heard
of Mrs Bchacht's little hoy Al
ever durklng 100 smackers so 1
say I’ll be there.
"I get a big garbage can to
caivv my golf cluba—all of which
are floor mops, except one real
driver | borrow. Then I get Hagen
* tn give "•*• .i laaaon in truing and
I rpmemtier al! It* tells me.
"So I got >ig to this pro tourna-
ment and I put on my funny act
which goes over tag (that's the
ham In nlm speaking) and then
I tell them f’m going to show
the pros itfiw to Irlve.
"1 repeat all Hagen has told
me in slow motion and then I ut
loose and hit the moat beautiful
drive I’ve ever pit.
Griffith happens to see that
drive and he immediately cancels
my 40 handlt-ai and what do you
think I shout >\ the ttasebaii
toun _ ,tiht's all. 160.”
Al showed up at the werWly
rowing iancheon just In time to
learn about the lad Vail Regatta
at Poughkeepsie on May 21- This
Is the "poor man’s F*onghkeep*l#.
Some colleges which a hard
time borrowing a shell and oars
compete. Phis year we shall see
Dartmouth. American International,
Amherst. Boston university.
Marietta. |ona. Wash mgton 4 Lev
and Rollins on the river.
Wdien a college gets too good
it moves up to the big time. That
happened to Riggers and may
happen to R. fj. tnia year.
SI 1 other college* are waiting
to loin the [)ad Val! organl zatlon
Florida Southern, Tampa, Brown,
winch hasn’t had s crew tn mor*-
than 80 r»ar*. La Salle of Phil-
adelphia. Clart university and
Maryland.
Out of th*- meeting came a
suggestion that the West Coast
fore a similar rganl/atton and
line up such colleges as Stockton,
Willamette. 'lrttlsh Columbia.
Reed. Gonraga, .Nl, Mary's and
Santa darn. Then It proposed
to have the itest pair on the coast
come east to meet the best :>«re
tn the Dad Vail Regatta.
We mention this 'ust to show
how rowing 1* growing, a* one
coach laid, ttie hov> swear "ft
at (he end of each year fait the
next year find* thee back trying
to Ireak the locks on the Imat
house do r Incidentally. Al
Sclvtcht thinks If- a great sptrri--
tn watch.
Laat nigM'a scheduled game
brtwvan the UladawaUr Basra
and the pans Panthers, which
wag to have been played In Paris,
waa postponed because of wet
grounds. According to BUI Thomp-
son of the Parla News, a double-
header will be played tonight.
The first game of the twin hill,
which will go seven innings wl'.l
start at 6:30 with the second
garanr-it regular nine inning affair-
staging Immediately following
the first game.
Righthander Ralph Daugherty
waa scheduled tn atari on the
mound for the Bears last night,
and will probably pitch one of
tonight's games.
Gladewater manager Hal Van
Pelt's Bears have won their last
eight encounters and a twin-killing
tonight would extend the
win streak to ten-str sight.
Through Monday night's1
the Hears wen only IS games
behind the league-leading Marshall
Browns and a half game behind
third place Parts, if the ctube
spill the twin Mil. Uw Panthers
will remain a half game ahead of
the Bear*, hut a double victory
hy Gladewater would put the
Hears a game and a half ahead
of Parla.
Qladewater will play the
panthers In Bear Park In Glade-
water Thursday and Friday nights
and will meet Marshall In Marshall
Saturday night and Sunday after-
noon.
Etex Officials
Vote To Raise
Player Limit
. Officials of the Last Texas
Baseball League ’net at the
Plneland <lolf and Country Club
yesterday afternoon. The group
voted to Increase the player limit
of th*- class C Last Texas loop
to sixteen men Instead of fifteen
as the ruling ha* been previously
• The deadline f"f the eight
Ktex clubs to meet the sixteen
player limit Is midnight tonight.
The additional player must tie
either a rtwikle or ji limited service
man.
Yesterday’* ruling *111 permit
cluba In the FJex 1 eague to
posses* only six class men and
seven or eight limited service
men. Two or three rookie* must
te* carried according to the number
of United service men on the
roster.
According to Gladewater 1’esr
president M-D. Swearingen. Glade-
water will have to eut one lit' Ited
service mgr. anti two class men
from the cluh before live Thursday
morning. May 19 lea-111 ne. Mr
.Swearingen state l that It had rr t
been decided yet a* to wh< 'll!
tie cut from the Gladewater ro-’er.
'
GKKKN HAY. »is.. May 17-
(INRV—The Green Bav Packers of
the National Football League
today announced the signing of
larkl* Charley Tatotr. of Texas,
but said they will play him at end
due to hi grt-ttt speed. I
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FASTEST CINTUiY ON RECORD—But the mark.*:
9 1 seconds, is not expected to be recognized •
because of a high wind. The record-breaker is
Mel Patton, University of Southern California
"fastest human," who was clocked in that time
during dual meet with UCLA in Los Angeici.
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NOA I I 11 MIM! r ft A/A
HI AN I 4 AD4HN
(Through May 16)
Betting- Washington .423,
Mayer «*|. Miller .372, Smith
,333. Van Pelt .31V
Hits- Witahinvi'-ti 41, Mayer 34.
Miller 32.
Two base hits- Meyer and Van
Pell 10. Washingtcn 8. Milter 5.
Three bast- hits- Perry 3,
Culllns 2. Smith and Van Pelt 1.
Home runs- Meyer 6. Washington
4. Miller 3,
Runs-Meyer 26. Washington 22.
Perry JD.
Runs hatted In* Meyer 30.
Washington 28. Miller 26.
Stolen bases- Perry 7; Culllns
4: Washington, saye and .lalatl 2.
LOS ANGKLKfc, May 17 *(LN' -
Auguat 11 *a» set t.yday a» the
new date for the w. rld'a aght-
weight title fight between chare
plan Ike Williams and knnque
Holanoa. The bout will be held
at Wrtgley Field in Los Angelea.
A recuriance of a shoulder
iniury forced cancellation of the
fight, originaily scheduled for
May 26.
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